Paolo Saguato

Paolo Saguato is an Assistant Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University specializing in financial regulation. His research interests encompass the intersection of banking, securities and derivatives regulation; the international and comparative dynamics and regulations of financial institutions; financial innovation and technology; and corporate law and theory. His recent scholarship has been published in the Yale Journal on Regulation; the Stanford Journal of Law, Business and Finance; the Journal of Corporate Law Studies; and the Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation.

Before joining Antonin Scalia Law School, Professor Saguato was a Research Fellow at the Georgetown Law Center (Institute of International Economic Law) and a Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he received the Teaching Excellence Award. Before that he was a Global Hauser Fellow at New York University School of Law where he was affiliated with the Center for Financial Institutions. Professor Saguato earned a BA (Laurea in Scienze Giuridiche) and a JD (Laurea Magistrale in Giurisprudenza) summa cum laude at the University of Genoa (Italy) and a PhD in Private, Business, and International Law at the same university. In addition, he holds a LLM from Yale Law School, which he attended as a Fulbright Scholar, where he focused his studies on financial markets regulation and corporate law and was a senior editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation.

Professor Saguato teaches Business Associations and International Finance and Regulation.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) University of Genoa (2009 — 2013)
• LL.M. Yale Law School (2011 — 2012)
• Summer School London School of Economics and Political Science (2010 — 2010)
• Summer School London School of Economics and Political Science (2009 — 2009)
• Doctor of Law (J.D.) University of Genoa (2006 — 2008)
• Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) University of Genoa (2003 — 2006)

Companies

• Member of the Consultative Working Group - CCP Policy Committee European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) (2021)
• Assistant Professor of Law George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School (2017)
• Academic Member European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) (2009)
• Senior Research Fellow Genoa Center for Law and Finance (2008)
• Research Fellow in Law & Economics George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School (2017 — 2017)
• Senior Fellow at The Institute of International Economic Law Georgetown University Law Center (2016 — 2016)
• LSE Fellow The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2014 — 2016)
• Global Research Fellow New York University School of Law (2013 — 2014)
• Visiting Researcher University of Oxford (2012 — 2013)

Skills

• Public Policy
• Commercial Litigation
• Teaching

Other

Legal Advice, Finance, Legal Writing, University Teaching, Policy Analysis, Capital Markets, Securities Regulation, Financial Regulation, Corporate Governance, Research, Corporate Law, Legal Research